Best Operators to Pair With Camille in Arknights: Endfield (Pre-Release Team-Building)

Let’s get one thing out of the way up front: Camille isn’t out yet. He drops June 26, 2026 in the “Expunger of Sin” banner during Version 1.3 Phase 2, which means everything you’re about to read is theorycraft built on the 1.3 livestream and the datamines that followed. I’ll be honest about what’s confirmed and what’s still a leak with a question mark next to it.

But here’s why we’re writing this now instead of waiting: Camille is a limited 6★, his banner is a 120-pull spark, and if you’re saving for him you need to know who he actually wants on his team before you commit your Orundum — not after. The single biggest mistake players make with a battery-class unit is pulling the battery and then realizing they don’t own anyone worth charging up.

So this is the planning guide. Who does Camille make better, why, and which of his partners are worth pre-building while we wait. Let’s dig in.

TL;DR - Key Points

• Camille is a Heat Vanguard hybrid — SP battery + Heat enabler + debuffer + minor sub-DPS, not a hypercarry. Build your team around a carry he can feed, not around him.
• His signature pairing is Laevatain — she absorbs his Heat Infliction into damage stacks, and that absorption triggers his Combo Skill. Clean two-way loop.
• Wulfgard is the best free enabler — story-given 5★ Heat Caster that feeds both Camille’s Combo trigger and Laevatain’s stacks.
• Antal is the cheap force-multiplier — a 4★ who stacks Heat Susceptibility and Heat Amp on separate multipliers from Camille, so they don’t overlap.
• The hyped premium comp is Rossi + Camille + Mi Fu — Rossi bridges Camille’s Heat Infliction into Physical Vulnerability for Mi Fu to cash out.
• He likely replaces Akekuri in Heat teams (he adds Heat Susceptibility + Weaken that Akekuri lacks) — you usually run one or the other.
• Everything here is pre-release — skills are confirmed, but stats, talents, and the all-important Link multipliers are not. Treat builds as provisional.

First, what is Camille actually doing on a team?

If you take one thing from this post, take this: Camille is the engine, not the car. He’s a 6★ Heat Vanguard wielding a polearm, and his job is to make someone else hit harder while keeping your whole squad’s SP topped up so skills loop faster.

Mechanically he does four things at once:

• Applies Heat Infliction through his basic attack finisher, his Battle Skill, and his Ultimate — the elemental fuel a Heat carry consumes.
• Applies Heat Susceptibility and Weaken via his summoned “Firefang Vesperwings,” which hover on the primary target and increase the Heat damage that target takes.
• Restores huge chunks of SP — his Combo Skill returns roughly 15–20 SP, his Ultimate around 30. That’s the battery half of his identity.
• Grants the team a “Link” buff that boosts the next Battle Skill or Ultimate — the same buff Akekuri provides, which is exactly why people keep calling Camille “Akekuri but better.”

None of that wins a fight by itself. Drop Camille into a team with no Heat payoff and he feels like a glorified SP dispenser. Pair him with a carry who eats Heat Infliction and Susceptibility, and suddenly your rotations are faster and your burst windows hit like a truck. Internalize “he’s the setup, not the cash-out” and his team-building clicks immediately.

The signature pairing: Laevatain

If Camille has a soulmate on the current roster, it’s Laevatain, the premier 6★ Heat Striker. This is the pairing every theorycrafter is circling, and the synergy is genuinely two-way rather than one unit babysitting the other.

Here’s the loop in plain English. Laevatain’s Scorching Heart talent absorbs Heat Infliction into “Melting Flame” stacks through her Final Strikes — one stack per infliction absorbed, up to four. At max stacks her damage starts ignoring a chunk of enemy Heat Resistance (Prydwen pegs it at 10/15/20 resistance ignored depending on talent level, for 20 seconds). Camille is a machine for feeding her that Heat Infliction, and his Vesperwings pile Heat Susceptibility on top so each of her hits lands harder.

The clever part: when Laevatain absorbs Heat Infliction, that consumption can trigger Camille’s Combo Skill — which deals damage, restores SP, and (if the target has his Vesperwings) hands the team a Link buff. So Laevatain charging up literally charges him up too. You’re not choosing between feeding her and using him; doing one does the other.

For most accounts, the default Camille team starts here: Laevatain (carry) + Camille (battery/enabler) + two support slots. If you’ve been weighing her against other limited carries, our Gilberta vs. Laevatain pull-decision breakdown lays out why she’s worth the investment that makes Camille shine.

Wulfgard: the free enabler you should already be building

Not everyone owns a second 6★ Heat carry, and you don’t need one. Wulfgard is a 5★ Heat Caster you get free from the story, and he’s the best-value Heat enabler in the game.

His Combo Skill drops AoE Heat Infliction (it only needs any Arts Infliction already on the field to fire), and his Ultimate forcibly applies Combustion. Both of those feed Camille’s Combo trigger and Laevatain’s Melting Flame stacks. He costs you nothing but leveling materials, and he’s nearly auto-included in any Heat composition.

If you’re saving pulls for Camille, level Wulfgard now. He holds his value no matter how Camille’s final numbers land, and a fed Wulfgard makes the difference between a Heat team that sputters and one that loops cleanly.

Antal: the cheapest force-multiplier in the game

Here’s my favorite budget tech for Camille teams: Antal, a 4★ Electric Supporter who is absurdly easy to max.

His Battle Skill, “Focus,” slaps both Electric and Heat Susceptibility on a single target — and per Prydwen that debuff lasts something like 60 seconds, which is an eternity in a fight. His Ultimate then applies Electric Amp and Heat Amp to the whole team.

Why does this matter alongside Camille specifically? His buffs occupy different multiplier slots than Camille’s. Susceptibility, Amp, and Camille’s Link don’t step on each other — they stack multiplicatively. So Antal isn’t redundant with Camille; he’s a clean additional layer on top. For the price of a 4★ you almost certainly already have, you get a meaningful damage bump on any Heat carry. Max him.

Sustain and AoE: Ardelia and Gilberta

Your fourth slot is usually a Nature Supporter, and the two best options solve different problems.

• Ardelia is the sustain pick. She heals, applies long-duration Physical and Arts Susceptibility, and forces Corrosion — which can itself trigger Combo Skills in your chain. She’s the community-preferred fourth in Laevatain teams and the safest general-content choice.
• Gilberta is the AoE pick. Her grouping pulls enemies together and she layers Arts Susceptibility on the cluster. This is the better fourth when you’re drowning in adds, because grouping multiplies how many targets Camille’s Vesperwings and Ultimate hit — and it makes the Vesperwings’ jump-on-kill spread far more effective. If you want her full synergy map, our Gilberta best-teams breakdown covers who she enables.

Rule of thumb: Ardelia for survivability and single-target, Gilberta for AoE clears. Most players will run Ardelia as the default and swap to Gilberta for add-heavy stages.

The hyped premium comp: Rossi + Camille + Mi Fu

Now for the comp that has the theorycrafting corner of the community most excited — and the one I’d caution you to treat as the highest-ceiling, highest-uncertainty option.

Rossi is the elemental bridge. She uniquely converts Arts Infliction into Vulnerability stacks while applying Razor Clawmark (a Physical + Heat damage-taken debuff). In other words, she can eat Camille’s Heat Infliction and turn it into Physical setup. That’s the magic trick: Camille is nominally a Heat unit, but through Rossi his output feeds a Physical carry.

That Physical carry is Mi Fu, the 6★ Crush hypercarry from 1.3 Phase 1 who consumes Vulnerability stacks for screen-clearing finishers. In the bridged team — Rossi + Camille + Mi Fu + a flex (Chen Qianyu, Pogranichnik, or Gilberta) — Camille absorbs the combined roles that Wulfgard and Akekuri used to fill (Heat Infliction, buffs, SP), Rossi converts, and Mi Fu cashes out. Guides are calling it one of the most anticipated comps of the patch.

The catch: its efficiency is unconfirmed until Camille’s personal damage and Link numbers are known. If Camille’s Link multipliers land high, this comp is terrifying. If his personal damage is low and the conversion has too much overhead, you may be better off just running Mi Fu’s clean mono-physical core. If you already own Mi Fu, our companion Mi Fu & Camille build guide digs into the rotation mechanics that make this bridge tick — and is the natural next read after this one.

Camille vs. Akekuri: do you run both?

Short answer: usually one or the other. Camille is, functionally, the limited 6★ upgrade of Akekuri’s 4★ role — both are Heat Vanguard batteries that grant the Link buff. Camille adds Heat Susceptibility and Weaken that Akekuri simply doesn’t have, plus bigger SP returns.

A few nuances:

• Akekuri keeps the Thermite Cutter niche. Akekuri can equip the Thermite Cutter (a Sword), and there’s currently no equivalent polearm support weapon for Camille. If your build leaned on that weapon’s effect, that’s a point for keeping Akekuri around. Our Thermite Cutter weapon analysis covers why that sword mattered.
• You can stack both for extreme SP-and-Link generation in niche setups — but you’re giving up a damage or sustain slot to do it, so it’s an edge case, not a default.

For most players, Camille slots into the spot Akekuri occupied and you bench Akekuri (or move him to a second team). If you want to understand the battery role in general before committing, our SP battery tier list ranks every generator and explains where Camille’s projected output sits.

Quick-reference: Camille pairing tiers

Builds by player type

Not everyone is approaching Camille from the same place, so here’s how I’d plan depending on who you are.

The Laevatain owner. Camille is a near-auto-include. Prioritize the full 120-pull spark, and pre-build Wulfgard + Ardelia + Antal so the moment he lands you have a complete Heat core. This is the cleanest payoff path.

The Mi Fu / Physical player. Camille is optional. He only matters to you for the Rossi-bridged experiment, and that’s a premium-roster gamble. Don’t break your savings for him unless you specifically want to test the hybrid. Your existing physical core is fine without him.

The F2P / low-spender. Good news: Camille’s partners are extremely accessible. Wulfgard is free, Antal and Akekuri and Chen Qianyu are cheap 4–5★s. The expensive part is Camille himself (limited, 120-pull spark). If you can’t guarantee the spark, you lose nothing by building his enablers anyway — they all serve other teams.

The “who do I pull, Mi Fu or Camille” player. If you run Heat (Laevatain) or want the Rossi hybrid, Camille. If you want a self-sufficient Physical hypercarry, Mi Fu. We broke the head-to-head down in detail in our Mi Fu vs. Camille pull-decision guide.

Common mistakes to avoid

A few traps I can already see players walking into with a battery-class unit like this:

• Building Camille for personal damage. Until his numbers are confirmed, treat him as support: prioritize Agility, SP, and Ultimate-gain over raw damage stats. He’s not your carry.
• Pulling Camille with nobody to feed. The whole point is enabling a Heat carry. If you don’t own (or won’t build) Laevatain, Wulfgard, or the Rossi/Mi Fu pieces, he has nothing to charge up.
• Running Camille and Akekuri by default. Outside of niche SP-stacking, you’re wasting a slot that should be a carry or sustain. Pick one battery.
• Stacking Endministrator with the Rossi/Mi Fu hybrid. Endmin competes with Mi Fu for Vulnerability stacks — the same anti-synergy that plagues Mi Fu’s own teams. Don’t run both.
• Trusting the Link multipliers as gospel. The specific 1.3x/1.45x figures floating around come from a single low-reliability source that gets other basic facts about Camille wrong. They’re plausible, not confirmed.

What would change these recommendations

This is pre-release, so a few benchmarks at launch could reshuffle everything:

• If Camille’s personal damage is low, lock him in as a pure support battery and never look back — Laevatain and Mi Fu stay the carries.
• If his Link multipliers confirm high, he jumps up the pull-priority list, and the play becomes timing his Combo/Ultimate right before your carry’s burst window.
• If a future patch adds a polearm support weapon or a Heat hypercarry that out-scales Laevatain, his best-in-slot gear and ideal team get re-evaluated.
• Version 1.4’s new operator could shift the whole Heat picture — Endfield tier lists refresh roughly every six-week patch. Don’t over-invest your entire roster before his kit is fully tested in live play.

The final read

Camille is the kind of unit that looks underwhelming on a spec sheet and quietly transforms a team in practice — if you give him something to enable. He’s not a flashy hypercarry you point at a boss; he’s the tempo-and-fuel engine that makes your actual carry loop faster and hit harder, while applying Heat Susceptibility that nothing else in his role offers.

For Heat players building around Laevatain, he’s close to mandatory and worth the spark. For everyone else, he’s a luxury that only pays off if you’re chasing the Rossi-bridged hybrid. Either way, the smart move between now and June 26 is the same: build his enablers — Wulfgard, Antal, Ardelia, Akekuri — because they cost you nothing extra and they all earn their keep regardless of how Camille’s numbers land.

Check back after launch — once his stats and Link multipliers are live and tested, we’ll update the team rankings with real damage figures instead of theorycraft.

Quick FAQ

Is Camille a DPS or a support? A hybrid Vanguard: SP battery, Heat enabler, debuffer, and minor sub-DPS. He is not a main carry — build your team around a carry he feeds, like Laevatain or (via Rossi) Mi Fu.

What’s Camille’s best team? The default is Laevatain + Wulfgard + Camille + Ardelia. Swap Ardelia for Antal when you want more burst, or for Gilberta when you need AoE.

Does Camille replace Akekuri? In Heat teams, most likely yes — he does Akekuri’s battery/Link job and adds Heat Susceptibility and Weaken on top. Akekuri keeps a niche only because he can equip the Thermite Cutter and Camille can’t.

Should I pull Camille or Mi Fu? Mi Fu if you want a self-sufficient Physical hypercarry. Camille if you run Heat (Laevatain) or specifically want the Rossi + Mi Fu hybrid. They serve different teams.

Is Camille F2P-friendly to use? His partners absolutely are — Wulfgard is free, Antal and Akekuri and Chen Qianyu are cheap. Camille himself is a limited 120-pull spark, so the unit is the expensive part, not the team around him.

Who should I build now while I wait for him? Wulfgard, Antal, Ardelia, and Akekuri. None of them are wasted investment even if you skip Camille, and they make his eventual launch team complete on day one.

What stats should I build on Camille? Treat him as support until proven otherwise: Agility (his likely main attribute, per his signature polearm), SP generation, and Ultimate-gain. Don’t chase raw damage on a battery.

Are the Link buff multipliers confirmed? No. The specific 1.3x/1.45x numbers come from a single source with known factual errors. What’s confirmed is that Link is the same buff Akekuri grants and boosts your next Battle Skill or Ultimate — the exact magnitude is still unknown.

Is the Rossi + Camille + Mi Fu hybrid actually good? On paper, very — Rossi converts Camille’s Heat Infliction into Vulnerability for Mi Fu. In practice, its efficiency depends on Camille’s unconfirmed personal damage. Test it at launch before tearing apart a working comp for it.

When does Camille release? June 26, 2026, in the “Expunger of Sin” banner during Version 1.3 Phase 2, running until the Version 1.4 update around July 18.

That’s the pre-release plan. Everything above is theorycraft until June 26 — but the team-building logic holds regardless of his final numbers, and the enablers are safe to build today. We’ll revisit this once he’s live and the damage is measurable. Happy saving.